Year 13 Texts
Power and control:
The Crucible
Othello
Cuckoo’s Nest
Poem “Green Beret” by Vietnamese poet Ho Thien
Valkyrie
Patricia Grace “The Geranium”
Suggestions for research topics:
Control, Submission and Rebellion, Power
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Scarlet Woman
1984
Animal Farm
The Trial
Metamorphosis
Brave New World
room/Lib
The Color Purple
room/Lib
Smith’s Dream
room/Lib
Cry, The Beloved Country
Desert Flower
Waiting for the Barbarians
A Thousand Splendid Suns
room
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Once Were Warriors
Memoirs of a Geisha
room
Brick Lane
The Crucible (play)
V for Vendetta
The Truman Show
Sleeping Dogs
The Piano
Margaret Atwood
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Orwell
George Orwell
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Aldous Huxley
Library
Alice Walker
Resource
CK Stead
Resource
Alan Paton
Waris Durie
J M Coetzee
Khaled Hosseini
Library
Library
Alan Duff
Alan Duff
Arthur Golden
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Monica Ali
Arthur Miller
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
Library
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Knox
Isabel Allende
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salmon Rushdie
Ben Okri
Laura Esquivel
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Resource
Lib/Resource
'The story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Magic Realism
The Vintner’s Luck
Daylight
The House of Spirits
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Midnight’s Children
The Famished Road
Like Water for Chocolate
Library
Beloved
Paradise
Sula
Palace of the Peacock
The Age of the Rainmakers
Orlando
The Bone People
Kopuku Dreams
The Cowboy Dog
The Time Traveller’s Wife
room
The Life of Pi
Dreamquake
Big Fish
Pan’s Labyrinth
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Wilson Harris
Wilson Harris
Virginia Woolf
Keri Hulme
Chris Baker
Nigel Cox
Audrey Niffenegger
Library
Yann Martel
Elizabeth Knox
(film)
(film)
Library
Library
(short stories)
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Observations on War
My War Gone By, I Miss it So
Triage
We Will Not Cease
The Regeneration series
Birdsong
Tu
room
Talking About O’Dwyer
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Lucky Bastard
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Uncle’s Story
The Things They Carried
Ghost Road
All Quiet on the Western Front
Red Badge of Courage
A Farewell to Arms
A Soldier’s Tale
Room/Lib
Catch 22
Cold Mountain
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Jarhead
Rambo
Persepolis
Waltz with Bashir
Gallipoli
The Quiet American
The Hurt Locker
Beneath Hill 60
Anthony Lloyd
Scott Anderson
Archibald Baxter
Pat Barker
Sebastian Faulks
Patricia Grace
CK Stead
Louis de Beurnieres
Peter Wells
Steven Galloway
Witi Ihimaera
Tim O’Brien
Pat Barker
Erich Maria Remarque
Stephen Crane
Ernest Hemingway
M K Joseph
Resource room
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Resource
Joseph Heller
Library
Charles Frazier
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
(graphic novel – Library - and animated film)
(animated film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
The Portrayal of Women in Literature
Jane Eyre
Room
Charlotte Bronte
Lib/Resource
The Wide Sargasso Sea
Ariel
The Bell Jar
room/Lib
(poetry)
Mrs Dalloway
The Peppered Moth
The Female Eunuch
(Crime fiction)
Joy Luck Club
Charlotte Gray
The Shipping News
room/Lib
Othello
room/Lib
Wuthering Heights
Atonement
A Thousand Splendid Suns
room
The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Kitchen God’s Wife
Memoirs of a Geisha
Desert Flower
The Good Women of China
Pride and Prejudice
room
Emma
The Red Tent
Hand Me Down World
The Piano
Heavenly Creatures
Jean Rhys
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
Resource
Anne Sexton
Virginia Woolf
Margaret Drabble
Germaine Greer
Kathy Reichs
Amy Tan
Sebastian Faulks
E. Annie Proulx
Library
Library
Resource
William Shakespeare
Resource
Emily Bronte
Ian McEwan
Khaled Hosseini
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Steven Galloway
Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Arthur Golden
Waris Durie
Xinran
Jane Austen
Library
Library
Lib/resource room
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Jane Austen
Anita Diamant
Lloyd Jones
(film)
(film)
Resource Room
Library
Masculinity in NZ Literature
(short stories)
Foreskin’s Lament (play)
Stonedogs
Once Were Warriors
Man Alone
Long Loop Home (autobiography)
Smith’s Dream
room/Lib
Hummingbird
The Uncle’s Story
The Book of Fame
Talking About O’Dwyer
In My Father’s Den
Room/Lib
Two Little Boys
Lucky Bastard
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Sleeping Dogs
Smash Palace
Frank Sargeson
Greg McGee
Craig Morrison
Alan Duff
John Mulgan
Peter Wells
C.K.Stead
Library
Library
Resource
James George
Witi Ihimaera
Lloyd Jones
CK Stead
Maurice Gee
Library
Library
Library
Duncan Sarkies
Peter Wells
Alan Duff
(film)
(film)
Library
Library
Library
Resource
Satire/Black Humour –this is not a theme but style
Not the End of the World
He Died with a Falafel in his Hands
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Gulliver’s Travels
A Modest Proposal
Pride and Prejudice
room
That Old Ace in the Hole
The Importance of Being Earnest (play
How to be Good
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Feed
Room/Lib
Two Little Boys
Slaughterhouse-Five
Scarfies
Black Sheep
Christopher Brookmyre
John Birmingham
Helen Fielding
Jonathon Swift
Jonathon Swift
Jane Austin
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
E. Annie Proulx
Oscar Wilde
Nick Hornsby
Marina Lewycka
M. T. Anderson
Library
Duncan Sarkies
Kurt Vonnegut
(film)
(film)
Library
Library
Library
Library
Resource
Australian/NZ Identity/race relations
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Potiki
Being Pakeha Now
Hummingbird
Bulibasha
Talking About O’Dwyer
The Secret River
Cousins
Whanau
(poems)
Collision
Room
As the Earth Turns Silver
Apron Strings
Rabbit Proof Fence
Jindabyne
Utu
Samson and Delilah
Thomas Keneally
Patricia Grace
Michael King
James George
Witi Ihimaera
C K Stead
Kate Grenville
Patricia Grace
Witi Ihimaera
Apirana Taylor
Joanna Orwin
Alison Wong
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Lib/ Resource
Library
Not knowing or working out who you are: "Violence 101" by Denis Wright, "Face" by
Benjamin Zephaniah, "Sad Joke on a Marae" by Apirana Taylor, "On the Side walk
Bleeding"
The American Dream
The Great Gatsby
Room/Lib
The Grapes of Wrath
Death of a Salesman (play)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play)
(poetry)
Good Faith
F.S. Fitzgerald
Resource
John Steinbeck
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Alan Ginsberg
Jane Smiley
Library
Resource Room
Catcher in the Rye
Room/Lib
The Glass Menagerie (play)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
On the Road
American Beauty
Bonnie and Clyde
Revolutionary Road
J. D. Salinger
Resource
Tennessee Williams
Mohsin Hamid
Jack Kerouac
(film)
(film)
(film)
Resource Room
Library
Shakespeare
Resource
J.D. Salinger
Resource
Charlotte Bronte
Jean Rhys
Daphne du Maurier
Sylvia Plath
Library
Insanity/Madness
King Lear
Room/Lib
Catcher in the Rye
Room/Lib
Jane Eyre
The Wide Sargasso Sea
Rebecca
The Bell Jar
Room/Lib
The Curative
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Corrections
Norwegian Wood
Tender is the Night
Owls Do Cry
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
A Thousand Acres
Faces in the Water
Memory
To the Is-Land
Proof
A Beautiful Mind
Black Swan
Charlotte Randall
Ken Cesey
Jonathan Franzen
Haruki Murakami
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Janet Frame
Marina Lewycka
Jane Smiley
Janet Frame
Margaret Mahy
Janet Frame
(film)
(film)
(film)
Resource
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Science and Humanity
The Silent Spring
My Year of Meat
All of Creation
Brave New World
Room/Lib
Oryx and Crake
The Handmaid’s Tale
Feed
Room/Lib
Unwind
Useful Idiots
Never Let Me Go
The Island of Dr Moreau
Gattaca
Bladerunner
The Portrayal of Evil
Rachel Carson
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki
Aldous Huxley
Library
Resource
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
M. T. Anderson
Library
Library
Resource
Neal Schusterman
Jan Mark
Kazuo Ishiguro
HG Wells
(film)
(film)
Resource Room
Dracula
Frankenstein
Short stories
Vernon God Little
Macbeth
Room/Lib
The Dark Room
Triage
Heart of Darkness
Falling
Room/Lib
Mystic River
Apocalypse Now
In A Better World
Bram Stoker
Mary Shelley
Edgar Allan Poe
DPC Pierre
William Shakespeare
Library
Library
Library
Library
Resource
Rachel Seiffert
Scott Anderson
Joseph Conrad
Anne Provoost
Library
Resource
(film)
(film)
(film)
Addiction
A Million Little Pieces
Trainspotting
The Quiet American
Brideshead Revisited
Tender is the Night
The Line of Beauty
The Doors of Perception
John Barleycorn
Ray
Walk The Line
The Basketball Diaries
Thirteen
James Frey
Irvine Welsh
Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Allan Hollinghurst
Aldous Huxley
Jack London
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
Resource Room
Library
Library
Resource Room
Spreading the Word – the role of the missionary
The Power and the Glory
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Room/Lib
The Poisonwood Bible
The Sparrow
Children of God
St Agnes’ Stand
Mr Pip
Room/Lib
Things Fall Apart
The Mission
Rabbit Proof Fence
Graham Greene
Margaret Craven
Resource
Barbara Kingsolver
Maria Doria Russell
Maria Doria Russell
Thomas Eidson
Lloyd Jones
Library
Library
Library
Library
Resource
Chinua Achebe
(film)
(film)
Library
Rohinton Mistry
Witi Ihimaera
Jonathan Franzen
Library
Library
Library
Family conflict
Family Matters
Bulibasha
The Corrections
In My Father’s Den
Room/Lib
A Thousand Acres
King Lear
Room/Lib
The Kite Runner
Room/Lib
Blindsight
Tatty
The Bee Season
Atonement
Carry Me Down
Wuthering Heights
Lucky Bastard
Pride and Prejudice
Room
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
My Sister’s Keeper
A Thousand Splendid Suns
room
The Secret Life of Bees
Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
The Colour Purple
Room
This Boy’s Life
Silas Marner
American Beauty
The Ice Storm
Apron Strings
I Am Sam
The Black Balloon
In a Better World
Maurice Gee
Resource
Jane Smiley
William Shakespeare
Library
Resource
Khaled Hosseini
Resource
Maurice Gee
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Myla Goldberg
Ian McEwan
M. J. Hyland
Emily Bronte
Peter Wells
Jane Austin
Library
Kim Edwards
Jodi Picoult
Khaled Hosseini
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Sue Monk
Roddy Doyle
Alice Walker
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Tobias Wolff
George Eliot
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
Resource room
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Political/Racial/Religious conflict
The Inheritance of Loss
A Fine Balance
Falling
Room/Lib
The Book Thief
Room/Lib
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cal
Billy
In the Heart of the Country
Mr Pip
Room/Lib
Angela’s Ashes
Room
Brick Lane
Snow Falling on Cedars
Othello
Room/Lib
The Crucible (play)
Kiran Desai
Rohinton Mistry
Anne Provoost
Library
Resource
Markus Zusak
Resource
Harper Lee
Bernard McLaverty
Albert French
J M Coetzee
Lloyd Jones
Library
Resource Room
Library
Library
Resource
Frank McCourt
Lib/Resource
Monica Ali
David Guterson
William Shakespeare
Library
Library
Resource
Arthur Miller
Cry Freedom
Mississippi Burning
In the Name of the Father
Michael Collins
Bloody Sunday
Waltz With Bashir
Lemon Tree
Incendies
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
(animated film)
(film)
(film)
Inner Conflict – this is not a theme! But the texts offered are good
The Kite Runner
Room/Lib
Falling
Room/Lib
Talking About O’Dwyer
Disgrace
Atonement
(short stories)
Brick Lane
The Crucible (play)
The Catcher in the Rye
room/Lib
Hamlet
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Mystic River
Jindabyne
Waltz With Bashir
Tsotsi
In A Better World
Khaled Hosseini
Resource
Anne Provoost
Resource
C K Stead
J M Coetzee
Ian McEwan
Raymond Carver
Monica Ali
Arthur Miller
JD Salinger
Library
Library
Library
Resource
William Shakespeare
Paolo Giordano
(film)
(film)
(animated film)
(film)
(film)
Library
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Frank McCourt
Library
Library
Lib/Resource
Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Aravind Adiga
Monica Ali
Rohinton Mistry
Vikus Swarup
Library
Resource Room
Library
Library
Resource
Poverty
Oliver Twist
Bleak House
Angela’s Ashes
Room
Oracles and Miracles
The White Tiger
Brick Lane
A Fine Balance
Q & A/Slumdog Millionaire
room/Lib
Pursuit of Happyness
Slumdog Millionaire
Tsotsi
Samson and Delilah
(film)
(film)
(film)
(film)
Guilt and Redemption
Cold Mountain
The Kite Runner
room/Lib
Atonement
Charles Frazier
Khaled Hosseini
Resource
Ian McEwan
Library
Talking About O’Dwyer
Silas Marner
Things Fall Apart
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Shawshank Redemption
Tsotsi
C.K. Stead
George Eliot
Chinua Achebe
Paolo Giordano
(film)
(film)
Library
Library
Obsession
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
room/Lib
Enduring Love
Ian McEwan
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
room/Lib
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Obsession
Jonathan Kellerman
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Zahir
Paulo Coelho
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
/Lib
Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger
American Beauty
(film)
Best in Show
(film)
The Talented Mr Ripley
(film)
Black Swan
(film
Resource
Resource
Library
Library
Library
Resource Room
Library
Carl Nixon - Fish & Chip Shop Song - Weight, Like Wallpaper, My father running with
a dead boy yr 13 Settlers Creek – Carl Nixon
Juniors
Fleur Adcock's 'For Heidi with blue hair' and Rona Adshead's 'Teenage sky' - identity
as a teenager - great discussions around school rules and the moods of teenagers 'Patches hide no scars' (Haare Williams)
Andrew Fusek and Polly Peters poetry teen identity and relationships.
Ka Kite Bro – Willie Davis
Mr Van Gogh – Owen Marshall
Hero of the Day – Matt Gentry
The Glass Castle
The Trolley - Patricia Grace
Ten – TC Waikato in vol. 9 Huia short stories